Curtis
Melvin, a Ph.D. economics student at George
Mason University
in Virginia who operates the blog North Korean
Economy Watch, still offers the most detailed map of North Korea. Drawing on information
gathered from online newspapers, Korean TV newscasts, North Korean defectors
and Google Earth, Melvin has spent the last seven years detailing rocket launch
sites, palaces and gulags, among other things.
In collaboration with 38 North, the blog run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Melvin has laid out the information in the DPRK Digital Atlas.
"After seven years," he told ABC News, "I have amassed a colossal amount of satellite imagery that has been used to show the development of new factories, expansion of the electricity grid, the spread of markets, new military infrastructure and, unfortunately, apparent changes in the incarceration system."
In collaboration with 38 North, the blog run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Melvin has laid out the information in the DPRK Digital Atlas.
"After seven years," he told ABC News, "I have amassed a colossal amount of satellite imagery that has been used to show the development of new factories, expansion of the electricity grid, the spread of markets, new military infrastructure and, unfortunately, apparent changes in the incarceration system."
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